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Sir Walter Scott ..... . . 

A MlNIATFRK OK Slli WAI-TPni ScOTT . .... 

Sir Walter Scott's (tueat-Grandeathek, "Beakdie'' 
Sir Walter Scoir's Mother . .... 

College Wvxd, Kdixhirc;!! (Birthplace of Sii- Walter Scott) 
A Portrait ok Siu \Valter Scott (by James Saxon, 1805) 
Sir Walter Scon's Father ...... 

A Portrait ok Ladv Scorr (Charlotte Marc;aret Carpenter) 
No. 25, George Suiare, Edinburgh . 
Sandyknowe Tower .... 

The Grammar School, Kelso 
Waverley Loi){;e, Kelso 
Full-length PoirntAiT ok Sir Walter S(^ot 
Lasswade Co'itage .... 

Old Sherikf Court House, Selkirk . 

No. 39, Castle Street, Edinburgh . 

AsHESTiEL (from a diawing by J. M. W. Turner, R.A.) 

A Portrait oe Sir Walter Scott (bv Joseph Slater) 

Sir Walter Scott (by John Graham Gilbert, 18^9) 

Sir Walter Scott (by Sir J. Watson Gordon, R.A.) 

AbBOTSFORI) and THE ElLDON HiLLS .... 

Loch Katrine ........ 

Melrose Abbey ........ 



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LIST OF IIJJ STRATIOXS. 



The Chaxtkkv Krsr ok Siu Wai.tku Scott, IS^O . . . . .19 

Sir Waltkk Scorr (bv Sir Tliomas Lawrence) . . . . .20 

RnYAIKirs (il.KX ............ J20 

Finding the MS. of " Wavkui.ky "' . . . . . . . .21 

SiK Walter Scott (In Sii- David Wilivie, K.A.) 22 

Sir Walter Scott (hy Andrew (ieddes, A.K.A., 1818) . . . .25 

Sir Walter Scoit (from a paintini^ hy C. -R. Leslie, R.A., 1824') . 24' 

Sir Walter Scott (from a paintin<^ bv G. S. Newton, R.A.) . . 24* 

Sir \Valtei! Scorr ([)aiiited for Mr. Murray bv Thomas Phillips, R.A., 

1818) " ." 25 

John (4iiisoN Lockhart, Son-in-law and Biographeij ok Sir Walter Scott 25 

Chiefswood Cottage ........... 26 

A Portrait ok Mrs. J. (i. Lockhart ....... 27 

"The Arrotsford Fam[i,v " (by Sii- David Wilkie, R.A.) . . .28 

A Portrait ok Scott (by Knioht, 182()) 29 

Arbotskord from riiE Sorrn-wEsr ........ 30 

The Entrance Hall at Arrotsford ....... 30 

Sir Walter Scott and his Friends (from a paintiiiii; l)v 'I'homas 

Faed, R.A.) ; . . ;n 

The Old Tolrooi'h Door, ai- Arroi-sford ....... 32 

Sir Walter Scott (by Sir Wilham Allan, R.A., 1832) .... 32 

The I^irrary at Arroisford ......... 33- 

The Sti'dy ai' Arroisford .......... 33^ 

Sir Walter Scott in his Stidy (from a painting- bv Sir William 

Allan, R.A.) " . . . 34? 

Sir Walter Scorr (by Sir John Watson (Jordon, R.A., 1830) . . 35 

Sir Walter Scott's To.mr in Dryrirchi Arrey . . . . .36 

l)RYitrR(;H Arrey ........... 36 

A Portrait of Sir Walt.;r Scorr (by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., 1834) 37 

The Scott Monk.ment at EDiNRiiaiH, with a view of the Castle in 

THE Rackground ........... 38 



SIR WALTER SCOTT : 

SOME OF HIS HOMES AND HAUNTS. 




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K L U () S E llailway Stutiou in " the 
season " is proof enough that Scott 
and his Country are not forgotten. Each 
summer sees an ever-increasing influx of visitors 

hmd of tlie mountain 
far 



foreign 



A MINIATURE OF 

SIR WALTER SCOTT 

In the Scottish National Portrait 

Gallery 

the a\erage Scot, 
is not surprised. 



from all quarters to the 
and tlie Hood." And so far as the 
element is concerned, the palm for popularity 
must be given to the shrines of Sir AA^alter. 
In the States and Canada Scott is said to be 
even better known than he is in Scotland. 
The story of his homes and haunts prints 
itself more deeply, perhaps, on the heart and 
imagination of the average American than 
That is scarcely as it should be ; still, one 
No one disputes Scott's kingship among the 
Engli si 1 -speaking races, and, doubtless, the old " nearer-to-kirk " 
adage applies with tolerable truth to those who live witliin easy 
reach, or, indeed, within the romantic circle itself of the Scott 
Country. But there is a reviving interest in Scott in his own 
localities and amongst his own countrymen. The modern Scottish 
School has not outstripped the old— is far from outstripping it. 
Ste\'enson may be reckoned a good second to Scott, but 2)cr /oft^ij^o 
intervallo. And of other representatives (a company by no means to be 
despised) what is the verdict, howe^ er ? That they ha\'e but increased 
our himger, forcing us back to the great Master, always Romancist- 
in-Chief. One is glad, too, to find a growing tide in favour of 
Scott as a school classic. Thanks to the excellent editions recently 
produced for this purpose, there is no reason why e\'ery Scottish 



SIR AVALTER SCOTT 









SIR 
WALTER 
SCOTT'S 
GREAT- 

(;randfather, 

"EEARDIE" 

(Reproduced from 

Lockhart's "Life of Scott," 

liy kind permission of 

Messrs. A. & C. Black) 



schoolboy and (>irl should not succumb to tlie pure and wholesome 
sway of Sir W^alter Scott. W\t\\ profit, also, mitrht the schools 
devote some part of tlieir annual lioliday to his Country, and study 
on the spot that strong local environment wliich, in large measure, 
made him the man he was, and the force in British Literature he 
must still hold, notwithstanding the enormous fictional output of 
the period. 

It will be seventy-one years tliis autunm (1908) since Scott 
passed " from sunshine to the sunless land." But the sunny influence 
of his life has not passed. It lias rather increased year by year. 
When the pen dropped from his palsied fingers that pathetic day 
in 1832, Scott's Avork was only just beginning. The nineteenth 



SIR A\ ALTER SCOTT 



SIR 
WALTER 
SCOTT'S 
MOTHER 

(Reproduced from 

Lockhart's " Life of Scott, 

by kind permission of 

Messrs. A. & C. Klark) 




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century saw the world at liis feet in the most lovino- admiration. 
One is safe in saying that with " JNIarmion," and the "• Lay " ; •" Guy 
JMannering," and " Old JNIortality ' ; " The Bride of Lammermoor," 
and " Ivanhoe," more really pleasant hours have been spent than 
over any other series of romances in the liome-tongue (or any tongue 
w^iatever), however happily conceived. A constant demand for the 
numerous new editions, and an abiding interest in all tliat pertains 
to Scott and the Scott I^and, assure us that it will be long before 
the name of " AVaverley " passes from tlie speech and page of tlie 
multitude, or the places associated with the JNIagician fail to stir the 
sympathy and inspire the devotion of the whole English-speaking 
world : 



SIR WALTER SCOTT 



Sfott sliall iioVi" ()l)]ivi()n 

know ; 
While old Scotkiul lasts, his 

iiniiie, 
Fitly framed for iiiiitual faiiie, 
Shall with hers still co-exist, 
I'^irst in IIoiioin''s lofty list : 
Till his laud and race are not, 
(ilory he to Walter Scott ! 

The Border Country, 
in its oeneral cliaraeter- 
i sties, lias altered little 
siiiee Seott's day. In 
some other respeets there 
has l)een a saddenino- and 
woeful ehanoe. Still do 
the "glittering and reso- 
lute streams of Tweed " 
to use the Cromwel- 
lians phrase — keep their 
old graeeful way by the 
hoskiest of banks and 
greenest of meadows. 
The hills whieh AN'ash- 
ington Ir\'ing deelared to 
be " monotonous in their 
aspeet, and so destitute 
of trees that one eoidd 
almost see a stout Hy 
walking along their j)ro- 
file," have undergone, in 
many instanees, ji magnitieent metamorphosis. The rare woodland of 
Abbotsford is itself a sample of how many another landseape, once 
arid and ugly, has been transformed to " a thing of beauty and a 
joy for ever." 41iirlestane, in the heart of Ettriekdale ; Dawyek, by 
Drummelzier on the Tweed ; the " noble Xeidpath," despoiled by 
Wordsworth's '' Degenerate Douglas " ; Cowdenknowes, that true 




• COLLEGE -WYND-EDINBVRCH- 

L^^Z-.gJ'^'^^^'^LACE-OFvSlRA^ML^r^ OTT ••* _ J 

(Reproduced from an ttching hy L). Y. Cameron in Geur-e G. Napier's 
" The Homes and Haunts of" Sir Walter Scott, Bart.," by kind permission 
of the author and of Messrs. James Maclehose iS; Sons) 



SIR \\ AI/IER SCOTT 



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home of bcjiuty and soiio-, M'itli otiier dclio'litful domains, all well 
known to Scott but eovertless enough in his day, are now fully 
mantled in the ^lory of elm and oak. fir and beech, and rowan, 
intermingled with copses of hazel and lahurnum, wild-rose and 
broom. Xot, of course, that the country was a broad, l)ald stretch 
when the AA^izard was casting his spell over it. Tweed was a '• fair 
river" then also. And the beauty-spots of Scotts time al)ide the 
beauty-spots still. Rut the by-past century on tlie l^order was 
emphatically a century of arboriculture, a re\ivifying of the time 
wlien the colloquial name for the region between tlie Ettrick and 
Tweed valleys was "the Forest," classic in history, and immortal 
in the sweet settings of l^order minstrelsy. \\'ith Abbotsford. too, 
the neighbouring 
mansions, many of 
them, passed from 
their primitive shoot- 
ing-box condition 
into superb palatial 
residences. Railways 
\vd\e long interlaced 
the wide Rorder, and 
the most inaccessible 
hill hamlets of Scott's 
day are linked l)y the 
telegraph-line to all 
ends of the earth. 
Rut the vexing, al- 
most heartrending, 
feature of present- 
day Rorder life is the 
tremendous depopu- 
lation of the outlying 
districts. The 15order 
land question (the 
subject is hardly con- 
nned to tlie Rorder) .^ pc»rtrait of sir walter scott, by james saxon, is 





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SCOTT'S 
FATHER 

(Reproduced from 

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by kind permission of 

Messrs. A. ^^ C. Black) 



is surely ripe for discussion. AVhen is Government ii-oing to deal 
with it ? And the settlement of the baneful " led-farm " system, 
that most aograx ating curse of tlie Border parishes, unknown in any 
great degree to Scott, should be insisted upon from landlord and 
tenant alike. How deserted the glens of Ettrick and Yarrow, 
and Tweed and Teviot, since Scott was their most familiar figure ! 
More tlian one-half of their })eaceful, plodding populations have 
gone to swell the big locjd manufacturing centres, as Hawick 
and CTalasliiels, and the already overcrowded and o\-er-garreted 
cities like (Tlasgow and Edinburgli. The spirit of Border rusticity, 
as Scott gloried to live amongst it, has been rudely disturbed, 



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and a remedy might well be 
decrease. 



found against this continued 



111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 
Where wealth accumulates and men decay. 

AVhen A¥ alter Scott touched for the first time the land he was 
most of all to adorn, and which was to be identified with his name 
through the centuries, he was a child of barely three years — dull, lame, 
and tliought to be dying. It was to Sandyknowe, his grandfather's 
farm at Smailholm, in Roxburghshire, lie was sent to retrieve, if 
possible, his little life trembling in the balance. Here he lived, for 



SIR W xVLTEU SCOTT 




the most part, until his eiglitli year, 
recovered Iiis liealth, grew into a 
fine fair-haired boy, and, aljove all, 
cauglit, as no other did, the true 
spirit of the scenes amidst which 
lie lived and moved. Had he re- 
mained in Edinburgh he would 
ahnost certainly have succumbed. 
It was tlie happy thouglit of 
Smailholm that saved him to liis 
family and the world. But it did 
more. It gave the keynote to his 
future. It made a man of him 
in the best sense of the phrase. 
AVhat the boy felt in that first 
consciousness at Smailholm never 
left him all through life. It was 
there that destiny began to work 
itself out. From the *' honour- 
al)le humility " of llobert Scotts 
'• thatched mansion " he reached 
the topmost rung of the Scottish literary ladder, and he still 
stands, at the beginning of the new century, among Scotsmen 
''first in Honoui's loity list." Tlie farmhouse of Sandyknowe has 
long given place to a more connnodious dwelling. A small part 
of the original wall is said to be recognisable in the stable and 
cartshed of the modern steading. Tlie true shrine, however, is 
not the farmhouse, but the grey old fortlet of Sandyknowe, 
strongly posted on its beetling crag, about a bowshot beyond. It 
is one of the best-])reserved feudal relics in the south of Scotland, 
])ut, lying slightly oft' the Ijcaten track, is unknown to a large circle 
of Scott stud'^nts. The lines descriptive of it in the Introduction 
to Canto III. of " jNIarmion "' are among the finest of Scott's word- 
pictures : 

It was a baireii .-ccir', and wild, 
Where naked ellHs were rudely })iled, 



J-', on: a Jy/ioto by John Patrick, Edinburgh 

NO. 25, GEORGE SQUARE, EDINBURGH 

The residence of Sir Walter Scott's parents shortly 
after his l/irth in 1771 



SIR WAI/lEll SCOTT 



But ever and anon between 
Lav velvet tufts of loveliest <;reen ; 
And well the lonelv infant knew 
llecesses wlieie the wall-flower grew, 
And honevsuekle loved to erawl 
Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. 
I deenTd such nooks the sweetest shadt 
The sun in all its round survevVl ; 
And still I thouo-ht that shattered tow( 
The mightiest work of hvnnan pow ei' ; 
And niarveird as the aged hind 
^Vith some strange tale hewitchM mv i 
( )f foravers, who, with heachong foice, 
Down from that strength 

had spurr'd their horse, | 
Their southern ra])ine to ' 

renew, t . 

PVir in the distant Cheviots ' ^ < 

blue. 
And, home retiu'ning, filTd / ^ 

the hall | 

With revel, wassel-rout, 
and brawl. 



The wliole buildino- is 
suooestive of ininieiise 
strenfj'th. Tlie assaults 
of armed hosts and 
Time's c o r r o d i ii o- 
touches have left little 
difference upon it. 
Was ever scene so 
grand and fair ! That 
must be the reflection 
of all who have gazed 
from the summit of 
Sandyknowe on tlie 
majestic panorama 
spreading far and wide 




From a drawing by J. M. IV. Turner, R.A. 

SANDYKNOWE TOWER 

(Reproduced from Lockhart's " Life of Scott," by kind permission ot 
Messrs. A. & C. Black) 



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SIR AVALTER SCOTT 




THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, KELSO 

(Reproduced from W. S. Crockett's " The Scott Country, 
permission of Messrs. A. vs: C. Blacl<) 



by k:nd 



around it. Scott 
kii€n\' it Avell, iind 
brought many of 
liis friends in later 
years to get into 
raptures over it. 
His last \'isit was 
with Turner in the 
autumn of 1881. 
when tlie great 
artist sketched the 
phice for a new 
edition of tlie 
Poems. As an 
amplii theatre of 
the most perfect 
beauty, crowded with a tliousand memories of tlie heroic and the 
romantic, the view frf)m Sandyknowe should satisfy all lovers of tlie 
land of Scott. Close at hand are JNIertouns Halls — " fair e'en now" 
— the seat of Sandyknowe's laird, son of the reixers, but bearing, 

too, in liis ^eins 
the softer blood of 
Yarrow's gentle 
'" Flower. " A 
short distance 
to tlie west the 
lirethren Stanes 
shrine their tearful 
tragedy, whilst 
legends of the 
youthful Cuthbert, 
greatest of Border 
Saints, still linger 

WAVKRLEY LODGE, KELSO by tllC liaUllts of 

The residence of Miss Janet Scott li i c ll O \' h O (^ c\ 

(Reproduced from W. S. Crockett's "The Scott Country," by kind TTn •■t-li<:ii- /\\'f:>^' it 

permission of Messrs. A. c^ C. Black) rUlLlltl 0\ CI IS 




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Bemersyde of tlie perennial 
Rhymer's couplet — 



Haigs, eternally fortified l)y the 



Tvde what inav hctvde, 

Haig shall be Haii;' of BeuiersvdL' ; 

and away yonder are l)rybiu"oh. its white monks long laid to rest, and 
its bells long done ringing ; the Wizard-cleft Eildons ; ^Melrose, '* like 
some tall rock with lichens grey " ; the storied wXq of the Gala ; the 
Ettrick and Yarrow landmarks ; and in the distance the grassy peaks 
of Peeblesshire. On the south are the Dunion and Ruberslaw, 
Penielheugh and Lilliards Edge. Carter Fell, and the long wavy 
outline of the Cheviots. To the north "' the orim Black Hill of 



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C o M' d e n - 
k 11 o w e s " 
(r{Y/ enough 
fr o 111 this 
aspect, how- 
ever) seiiti- 
11 e 1 s the 
Rhymer's 
Ercildoune 
a n d the 
sweet pas- 
toral haiighs 
of the Lead- 
er. On the 
east rise the 
crags of 
Hiiiiie, with 
its disman- 
tled Castle, 

"stern guardian of the JNlerse," the Dirringtons, Covenant-haunted 
Duns Law, and the open-spreading, culti\ated, and fertile valley of 
tlie Tweed. *• Sucli," says I^ockhart, " were the ohjects that had 
j)ainted tlie earliest images on the eye of the last and greatest ^of 
the l^order Minstrels." 

More niit;litv spots may I'isc, more <;larin<^' shine, 

Hut none unite in one attaeliini;; nia/e. 

The ])rilhant, fair, and soft, the <;loi-ies of old days. 

Here, at Sandyknowe Tower, is the scene of Scott's first ballad, 
" The Eve of St. Jolui,"' written, it was said, to a\'ert its demolition. 
Rut that can scarcely be, remembering the exceeding strength of the 
structure, and the utter needlessness of what would have been an 
unpardonable vandalism. It lias been suggested that Sandyknowe 
might be purchased and put in a better state of repair by some such 
body as tlie Edinburgh Rorder Counties Association, which has 
already done admirable work in that direction, luuing annexed the 



I. A.- ^W Aid'. I, U I i Al.L 

Scott's country home during the early yeais of his married life 

(Reproduced from George G. Napier's " The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.," 
by kind permission of the author and of Messrs. James Maclehose & Sons) 



SIR A\ AI/lEll SCOTT 



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Tower of True Thomas 
at Earlston and John 
Leyden's Cottage at 
Denhohii, and contem- 
plating other com- 
mendable schemes. At 
any rate, the a isitor 
to Sandyknowe will 
not de^^art disap- 
pointed. In its bold 
and ruoged surroimd- 
ings he may discover 
ii wonderfully correct 
index to the deter- 
mination and keen- 
spiritedness of the boy 
who gaml)olled by its 
base, and as a youth 
elimbed to its hiohest 
bartizan, and — last 
scene of all — as a 
white-haired paralytic 
wept over the long- 
dead days as they came 
back to him liere, 
fancying himself once 
more on tlie broomy 
knowes of Smailholm 
in the midst of the 
thunderstorm and 
lightning Hashes, clap- 
ping his hands and 
■crying in his ecstasy, 
" Bonnie ! bonnie ! 
d ae ' t again, dae't 
iigain ! "' 



OLD SHERIFF 

COURT HOUSE, 

SELKIRK 

Where Sir Walter 

Scott sat when 

Sheriff of 

Selkirkshire 

From a plwto hy 

R. Clappcrton, 

Selkirk 



NO. 39, CASTLK 

STREET, 

EDINBURGH 

Sir Walter Scott's 

town resilience 

from 1798, shortly 

after his 

marriage, until 

1826 

From a pJ;oto 

hy John Patrick, 

Fd,nhi,,xh 




14 



SIR V\ AI/IER SCOTT 




ASHESTIEL 

From a draiving 
I'y J. M. ir. Turncy, R.A. 

Scott removed from Lassx\ ade 

to Ashestiel in 1S04, 

and here wrote '• The Lay 

of the Last Minstrel, " 

■' !\Larmioii," and 

" The Lady of the Lake " 

(Reproduced fronr 

Lockhart's " Life of Scott," 

liy kind 

permission of 

Messrs. A. & C. L'ack) 



Kelso, where some of Scott's happy boyhood years were spent^ 
is only six miles distant. He was a pupil in the old Grammar 
School, lono- demolished, close to Edie Ochiltree's prison — a vault 
in the Abbey — which the blue-gown declared " wasna sae dooms bad 
a place as it was ca'd." INIany of the houses where Scott was a 
frequent guest have disappeared, or, like AVaverley Lodge, as his 
Kelso home is now called, have changed beyond recognition. At 
Kelso, Scott's Ballantyne comradeship began. Here he printed his 
first ballad-collection — a mere pamphlet, indeed. Then the first two 
volumes of the " Minstrelsy " issued from the Kelso press in a 
splendour of typography which e\oked the highest admiration. We 



SIR \\ ALTER SCOTT 



15 



like to tliink of Scott's associations witli tliis charming Tweedside 
town — tlie "Queen of the Borders," and. as described by himself, 
" the most beautiful if not the most romantic ^ illage in Scotland." 
He had the kindest of friends at Kelso in liis maiden Aunt .Tenny, 
and indulgent sailor uncle at llosebank. It was from Kelso, too, 
as a law-student on holiday, free for a time from tlie " dry and 
barren wil- 
derness of 
forms and 
convey- 
ances," that 
he sallied 
fortli to 
Floddcn, to 
N o r h a m 

Castle, and '''M " " "0^- 

B e r w i c k. ' 

and as far 
s o u t li as 
B a m I) o r - 
ough and 
Ivindisfarne 
— all after- 
w a r d s 
shrined in 
" INlarmion, " 

the greatest ' 

of his verse- 
romances. 
Round 
about Kelso. 
he woidd be 
q u i t e a t 
home at 
Ednam, tlie 
bn-tnplace oi ^ portrait of sir walter scott, by joseph slater 




m-" 



16 



SIR A\ ALTER SCOTT 




SIR WALTER SCOTT. JiV JOHN 
GRAHAM GILBERT, isig 



tlie author of "• Tlie Seasons " ; at Yetholni, 
the CTypsy Capital; at Jedburgh, Southdean, 
Crailino-, and Aneruni — names of stirring 
note in Border history and romance. 

Scott married in 171)7. setthng down with 
tlic prim but pleasant, if not particularly 
])retty, mademoiselle with whom he fell in 
love, seemingly at firsi: sight, among the 
Cuml)erland mountains. "' Hy Kske's fair 
streams tliat run "" tliey lived for six years 
a pleasantly simple life in the rustic cottage 
at Lasswade. still to the fore, and practically 
S4ii|fclianged (it was lately in the market). 
Of Scotts Kdinburgli homes, little here, 
sa\'e to say that 81). Castle Street — " dear 
old 89 'was liis abode for many years, 

Avhere his best work was done, and at whose window Lockhart 

beheld that strikino-. somewliat weird. Rclshazzar-like vision of a 

hand writing far into tlie early liours of the morning. 

As Sheriff of Selkirkshire, or, more familiarly, and as lie liked 

best to be styled, tlie '• Shirra," Scott lived 

for a time at Clovenfords Inn on tlie Tweed, 

recentlv restored, and aoain caterino- for the 

angler and summer ^ isitor. A\^)rdswortli 

slept here on his first Border tour in 

1808, of which the fruit was '• Yarrow 

Revisited."' 



And when we fame to Clovenfoi-d, 
Then said uiv winsome mari'ow, 

" Wliate'er Ijetide we'll turn aside 
And see the Braes of Yarrow." 

Not far off is Ashestiel, from 1804 to 
1811 the centre of some of the dearest 
associations of Scott's life. For one of 
Scott's temperament and hobbies, there 




SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY SIR J. 
WATSON GORDON, R.A. 



SIR \\ Al/lEli SCOTT 



17 




From a pJioto hy Messrs. I'alentinc &f Sons, Ltd., Ihindi-e 

ABBOTSFORO AND THE EII,DON HILLS 



could not have been a more ideal dwcllint)-. Quiet and retired 
and situated on a singularly encliantino- reacli of tlie Tweed, the 
scenery all round about has been well iniaoed in his own deatliless 
lines. '• Vou approached it." says I.ockhart. '• through an old- 
fashioned garden with holly-hedges, and broad green terrace-A\'alks. 
On one side, close under the windows, is a deep ravine, clothed 
w^ith venerable trees, down which a mountain ri\'ulct is heard, 
more than seen, in its progress to the Tweed. The river itself is 
separated from the high bank on w^iich the house stands only 
by a narrow meadow of the richest verdure. Opposite and all 
around are the green hills. The ^'a^ley there is narrow% and the 
aspect in e\'cry direction is that of perfect pastoral repose. The 
heights immediately behind are those which di\'ide the Tweed from 
the Yarrow, and the latter celebrated stream lies within an easy 
ride, in the course of which the traveller passes through a variety 



18 



SIR AA ALTER SCOTT 




F>-o)ii a photo I'y John Patriok, Edinburgh 

LOCH KATRINE 



of the finest mountain 
scenery in tlie south 
of Seothuid." Aslie- 
stiel has altered 
considerably — " sor- 
roAvfidly chanoed," as 
lluskin wrote in 1888, 
since Scott's occu- 
])ancy. The east wing 
lias been added, and 
the entrance, which 
formerly faced the 
Tweed, is now turned 
hillwards. Scott 
wrote in tlie old dining-room — not the small study which Ruskin 
saw and described in " Fors," vol. \\\\. — the modern library, a 
quaint, old-fashioned room on the east side of the entrance 
porch. Through one of the original windovrs, now converted into 
a press beside the fireplace, the greyhoimds Douglas and Percy 
bounded out and in at will. Scott kept his books upstairs in the 
dressing-room. Xot any })art of the furniture is associated with him 
except a large easy-cliair, gifted by Scott to his in\alid cousin. Jane 

Russell, and after- 
r wards used by himself 

during the last sad 
days at Abbotsford. 
A portrait and a 
])uncli-bowl, presents 
to his cousin, are the 
sole remaining relics. 
Revisiting Ashestiel 
in 1826, Scott wrote 
in liis diary : '' Here 
I passed some happy 
, .;.,,, ,- , , years. Did I ever 

I^roDi a photo by Messrs. I alentinc &= Sons, Ltd., Dundee *' 

MELROSE ABBEY P^ss uuhappy years 




SIR A¥AI/rEll SCOTT 



19 



imywhere ? ^' The place was printed deep on his lieart, and had 
he been able to pureliase the ])roperty, Abbotstbrd might never 
have arisen from tlie swamps of Clarty Hole. At Ashestiel, liis 
fame as a poet rose to its full lieight, and tlie locality is tlierefore 
more interesting to students of Iiis poetry tlian any otlier of the Scott 
Nhrines. '' The Lay of the Last JMinstrel '" (partly), - Marmion;' " The 
Lady of tlie Lake," were written and published during his stay at 



smoKiB:^ 



THE CHANTREY BUST 

OF SIR WALTER 

SCOTT, iS2o 

Rischgitz Collection. 




20 



SIR A\ ALTER SCOTT 




Painted Jor King- I'tcoygc I \ . in I'iio, ajid no-.f 

in the Corridor at Windsor Castle 

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY SIR THOMAS 

LAWRENCE 

Rischgitz Collection 



Asliestiel, and tlie first chapters of 
" \\"averley " dashed off and hiid aside, 
to he examined some years later, and 
finally lost sight of* imtil their more 
momentons appearance in 1813. A 
knoll, on the adjoining farm of Peel, 
and overlooking tlie Peel or (xlenkin- 
non Burn, where Scott is said to liave 
peimed large portions of " INlarniion," 
is still known as the " Sliirra's Knowe," 
and anotlier favourite spot is pointed 
out underneath a tree on the river 
hank not far from the liouse. There, 
looking out towards Xeidpath Fell and 
the '• sister helglits of Vair," with the 
'' ever-dear Tweed " in pleasant hahhle 



at liis feet, and the glamour of 
old romance around liim, the 
great Minstrel sang his inmiortal 
lays. It is to })e regretted that 
Ashestiel does not receive the 
recognition which it ought to 
have as a })r()minent Scott land- 
mark. There is reason to fear 
that Ruskiii's taunt may he, after 
all, only too well founded, tiiat 
the birthplace of "• Marmion " is 
in danger of being forgotten 
as a favourite haunt of the most 
illustrious figure in Scottish 
literary history. 

Within easy reach of Ashe- 
stiel lie a munber of the 
best-known shrines of Scott. 




From a photo hy J no. Clapperton, G at aihiels 
RHYMER'S GLEN 



SIR WALTER SCOTT 



21 




FINDING THE MS. OK " WAVERLEY " 

(Reproduced from W. S. Crockett's " The Scott Country," by kind permission of Messrs. A. & C. Black) 

Innerleithen has long established its claim to be his " St. Ronan^s." 
A mere villao-e of six hundred inhal)itants wlien tlie novel was 
written, it is now a busy nianufacturino* centre, with a population 
of about four thousand. The '• TuUyA^eolan " of " A\^averley " is 
more than likely to be the history-liaunted House of Tracpiair, on 
the Tweed, fartlier over from Imierleitlien. Change has scarcely 
touched the place. It stands to-day solitary in its old-worldness, 
no abode in Scotland more quaint and curious, turreted, walled, 
buttressed, windowed, and looplioled. all as in the olden time. Still 
is its great gate sluit against all intrusion, and the fierce Bradwardine 
Rears frown as in years bygone. At Peebles, Scott found his proto- 
type of " Meg Dods "' — a '' landlady of the olden world '" : and tlie 
'• Cleikum Inn," erected in 1653, and altered only sliglitly, has long- 
been known as tlie Cross Keys. Scott spent not a few ^' cheerful 



*?'? 



SIR \\ ALTER SCOTT 




days," as he told the ^^"ords- 
wortlis, in Neidpatli Castle 
wlieii it was inhabited by 
Professor Ferguson and liis 
family. It is the seene of 
liis poem. " The Maid of 
Xeidpatli," and is still in a 
fair state of repair. The 
Black Dwarfs cottage in 
the Vale of Manor — ^"eiteh"s 
" sweetest glen of all the 
South "^ — is not that in wliieh 
Scott liad. in 171)7. tlie 
terribly weird interview witli 
David Ritchie, when, strong 
and fearless man as he was, 
he became pale as ashes, 
and liis person was agitated 
in every limb. The present 
structure was set up in 1802, 
but the original door and 
window have been retained. 
Further up the Tweed, we come to Drunnnelzier Castle, mentioned 
in '-The Betrothed" Introduction: Talla Linns, the scene of a 
"Heart of Midlothian" incident (chapter xviii.); and over the 
watershed, on the Annan side a little, the "deep, black, blackguard- 
looking abyss" of the Dexils Ikef Tub. referred to in the Laird 
of Summertrces' adventure in - Redgauntlet " (chapter xi.). ^Vt 
Yarrow Kirk, across the hills from Ashestiel, Scott frequently wor- 
shipped. His maternal great-grandfather, John Rutherford, had been 
ministci- of the parish, and the nun-al tablet to his memory in the 
back wall he styled the " shrine of my ancestors." The place is 
hardly at all changed since Scott's day. Doubtless many of the 
houses in Yarrow and Kttrick stand as Scott saw them durino- his 
period of Sheriffship. Blackhouse. the home of "dear AVillie " 
I^aidlaw, frequently visited by Scott with Leyden and Skene in 



J-'ioiii an cngrai'ing by EihcarJ S:iut/i 
SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A. 
Rischgitz Collection 



SIR WALTER SCOTT 



28 



their ballad-hunting excursions, has not altered nuich. ^Vltrieve — 
H()o-o"s home — is, however, pi-aetieally gone, merged in a new 
building with a new name — Eldinhope. Of JNIount Benger not a 
jjtone is left on another. The Gordon Arms lias been much enlarged 
.since Scott and the Shepherd took here their final farewell. Mnngo 
Park's })irthplace at Foulshiels is a rooHess ruin, and Ettrickliall, 
near Ettrick Kirk, where Scott first met James Hogg, demolished 
in 18.*3(), has been recently connnemorated by a handsome freestone 
obelisk. 

It is to Abbotsford, howe\ er, that one naturally turns in dealing 
with the homes of Sir 
Walter. Built between 
1811 and 182.5, Scott had 

only, practically speaking, 

one brief year of comfort 

and ease of mind in its 

occupancy. In 1820 came 

the biggest literary finan- 
cial failin-e of the century. 

Soon afterwards Lady 

Scott died. Scott's hair 

began to whiten, and with 

intervals of broken healtli 

<and pressing monetary 

difficulties, he was worried 

enough. An ugly, filtliy 

spot was the original 

Abbotsford. (Tradually 

there sprang up the 

modest villa, with its few 

enclosed fields. By-and- 

by came a larger addition 

to botli house and land, 

until finally it had grown 

to baronial proportions — 

a " romance in stone and 




A PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, 
GEDDES, A.R.A., iSiS 



BY ANDREW 



In the Scottish National Portrait Gallery 

(Reproduced from the Edinburgh Waverley E 'ition, ly kind 

permission of Messrs. 'T. C. i*t E. C. Jack) 



24 



SIR VVAI/IER SCOTT 




Fioiii a fiaintiitg by C. A'. 

L,s/n; A', .-J., '1824 
SIR WALTER SCOTT 

RUchgitz Collection 



lime " — inside and outside a tantJ-ible. unique 

commentary on tlie nation's Iiistory. Following 

Scott's death, the place appears to have been 

somewliat neglected. In IS.?.*}, Mr. Hope-Scott. 

luisl)and of I^ockhart's (hiughter. came into 

possession, and a new era began. An eminent 

and wcaltliy Parliamentary barrister, anxious to 

make Abbotsford liis principal summer resi- 
dence, lie spent large sums on additions and 

im])ro\'ements. •' ^Vn arrangement of access by 

wliich visitors might l)c achnitted to tlie show- 
rooms was constructed', and for tlie use of his 

own family he built, during the years 18.5.5-,57, 

on the east side, a large addition, consisting of a chapel, hall. 

drawing-room. l)oud()ir. and a suite of bedrooms. The old kitchen, 

with its motto, ' \\'aste not. want not,' was turned into a hnen 

room, and there was erected a 
long range of new kitchen offices 
facing the Tweed, which raised 
the elevation' of Scott's edifice 
and impro\'ed the facade of the 
house from the river. At the 
same time the avenue was 
lengthened, a lodge built, and 
the main road shifted several 
yards back, thus giving a privacy 
to the house which it had not 
})ossessed in former days." This 
Hope-Scott extension, in light 
freestone, is easily recognisable in 
contrast to the darker hue of Sir 
A\"alter's house, which was built 
of native blue whin. 

But Abbotsford must be seen 
to be understood, and no place, 
as has been said, is more popular 




Engraz'cd by Findeti 

SIR WALTER SCOTT, FROM A PAINTING 
BY G. S. NEWTON, R.A. 



SIR WALTER SCOTT 



25 




Pahittd for Mr. Mui-rav />; 
Thomas t'lullips, R.A., iSiS 

SIR WALTER SCOTT 

Rischgitz Collection 



as a tourist centre. Exerythiiio- lias })eeii left 
very much as in Scott's lifetime, and for the 
\ isitor there is the rarest possible treat. The 
rooms shown, and in this order, are the Study, 
Library, Drawino-Room, xVrmoury, and Entrance 
Hall. The Dinin^-Room — " his own great 
])arlour "" — is not o])en to the public. Here the 
final traoedy was played out on that balmy 
afternoon of 1832 — "a beautiful day, so warm 
that e\ ery window was wide open, and so per- 
fectly still that the sound of all others most 
delicious to his eai- — the gentle ripple of the 
Tweed o\er its pebbles — was distinctly audible 

as we knelt around the 

bed. and his eldest son 

kissed and closed his 

eyes." 

JMelrose, the Capital 

of the Scott Country, and 

the *' Kenna(pihair " of 

" The Monastery," has 

changed considerably since 

Scott's day. The modern 

town may be said to be 

entirely his creation. 

Handsome hotels, a pala- 
tial Hydropathic, the fine 

sidjurban villas on the 

AVeir Hill side, have all 

sprung up since then. 

And in summer it is. 

perhaps, the gayest and 

most pleasure-haunted 

place on tlie J5oraer. john gibsonlockhart, son-ixlawaxd ijiugrapher 
The Abbotsford road is o^ ^"^ walter scott 

d-i • , I I (Reproduced by kind permission of Mr. John Murray from a 

e d with the portrait in his possession) 




26 



SIR WAT/rER SCOTT 




inevita])le coach 
and wao-fj-onette 
traffic, and the now 
u])iqiiitous motor- 
car. " St. Davids 
ruhied pile,"' too, 
has its constant 
stream, and, thanks 
to the ducal owner, 
tlie structure is as 
well kept and as 
well preserved as 
wlien the Rard of 
his clan was its 
most frequent and 
most lionoured 
visitor. Tlie like 
can be said of 
Dryburoli.v where lie now sleeps in pictm-esqueness and seclusion 
of situation tlie most charmino- monastic ruin in (4reat Britain. 

All is sik'iit .-IS ;i dream. 
But for a tlirostle on the aiieient vew. 
But for the low faint nuirniur of the stream ; 
And sweet old-fashioned seeiits are floating- through 
The areli tVoni tlivuie and bi-iar, as for -ever 
Shall his sweet nature liaunt tliis fahled river. 



CHIEFSWOOD COTTAGE 

The residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. (1. Lockhart in the early years of thei 
married life 

(Reproduced from W. S. Crockett's " The Scott Coinitry," by kind 
permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) 



AV. S. Ckockett 



THE PORTRAITS 
OF SIR WALTER SCOTT 

NOTHIXCx in Sir AValter Scott's reniurktible career is more 
notable than his capacity for findino- time to meet the wishes, 
and even to j>Tatify the whims of friends. Thronoliout a hfe fnll 
to overfiowino- with hterary hibonr and professional dnties. lie seemed 
to liave leisnre for everythino-. And not least is this e\ ident in 
the number of times he sat for his portrait. Proud and glad of 



A PORTRAIT 

OF 

MRS. J. G. LOCKHART 

Sir Walter Scott's eldest 

daughter Sophia was 

married to 

Mr. John Gibson Lockhart 

on the 29th of April, 

1820 

(Reproduced from 
Lockhart 's "Life of Scolt," 

by kind permission 
of Messrs. A. & C. Black) 




28 



SIR WAI/rER SCOTT 




'■ IHE Ai;i!OTSF(iKI) FAMILY, I'.V MR JiANlD WILKIE, R.A. 

In the National CSallciy of Scotland 

(Reproduced from "Sir Da\id Wilkie " in the "tlreat Masters in Painting and Sculpture" Series, by kind 
]ierniission of Messrs. Geo. Bell & Sons) 



his friendship, his friends were eontiiiiially asking him to sit to some 
artist of their aequaintanee. Seott shared his fa\'ourite stagliouiurs 
repugnanee to posing, for we find liim writing in liis Diary, (ipropos of 
a portrait tliat Terry the aetor wanted, " This is \ ery far from ])eing 
agreeable. T am as tired of the operation as old ' INIaida,' who has 
been so often sketehed that he got np and walked off' with signs of 
loathing whenever he saw an artist nnfurl his ])aper and handle his 
})rushes " ; but he was supremely good-natured, and always Milling 
to ol)lige a personal friend or a young painter. It is to this that we 
owe our exeeedingly intimate knowledge of his appearance from year 
to year, a knowledge unecpialled in the ease of any other author. 



SIR WALTER SCOTT 



21) 



Resides iiuiuy minor sketches, tliere are fully tliirty iniportMiit 
portniits of Scott from life, uiul of a iiuml)er of these there are 
several repetitions, for which he gave special sittings. Of originals 
more than four-and-twenty were executed during the last fourteen 
or fifteen years of his life— the busiest of all- indeed, one may say 
that every year after 1815 was marked by the appearance of at least 
one new portrait, and probably by sittings for replicas of others. 



PORTRAIT 

OF 

SCOl'T, 

BY 

KNIGHT, 

1S26 

Rischgitz 
Collertion 



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SIR WAI/rER SCOTT 




AliHOTSFORD FROM THE SOUTH-WEST 



It was during a 
\ isit to Hath, in 1777, 
tliat the tirst known 
portrait was made. 
He was only in liis 
sixtli year, but the 
oeneral niouldino' of 
the liead, witli its ab- 
normal heii^lit al)ove 
tlie eyes, and exen of 
the featiu'es. has a 
strong reseml^huice to 
tlie portraits of liis 
maturity, partieularly 
to tlie profile drawing by Chantrey and the I^eath INIask. The 
ivory of the original ha\ ing been eraeked, it was given by INIrs. 
Seott to a relation, from whose family it passed into the hands of 
David I^aing, wlio in turn bequeathed it to the Scottish Society 
of Antiquaries, by whicli body it is now lent to the Scottish 
National Portrait (Gallery. The \ersion at .Vbbotsford is an old 
copy, as is that wliich belongs to Mr. John Murray. Twenty years 
passed before the next auth.entic j^ortrait. the miniature in Yeomanry 

imiform. was painted 
to send to his Ji(uurc\ 
^Nliss Carpenter, on 
the eve of tlieir wed- 
(hng. It is well 

enough in its Avay, 
but lacks character, 
and except for associ- 
ation (it lies in a case 
in tlie library at 
Al)b()tsford. beside a 
miniature of l.ady 
Scott, for whicli it 
is of 




f'/n^to i-y -I. .1. /iiK' ''■•■, Kdinl'iiri^h 
THE ENTRANCE HALL AT ABBOTSFORD 



was exchanged 



SIJ{ WALTER SCOTT 



:U 




i;v iHi:)MAS fap:d, r.a. 



SIR WALTER SCOTT AND HIS FRIENDS, FROM A I'AINIINr, 

Sir Adam Ferguson 
Thomas Moore 
Thomas Campbell 
Sir William Allan 
Thomas Thomson 

(Reproduced from W. S. Crockett's "The Scott Country," bj- kind permission of Messrs. A'. & C. Rlack) 



Sir Walter Scott 
James Hogg 
Henry Mackenzie 
John Wilson 



Rev. George Crabbe 
John G. Lockhart 
W. Wordsworth 
Lord Jeftrey 



Sir David Wilkie 
Archibald Constable 
James Ballantyne 
Sir Humphry Davy 



little account. Of oreater interest is tlic tirst portrait in oils, painted 
in 1805, })y James Saxon, a Manchester artist, who for a wliile 
met with considei-ahlc success in Kdinl)in;<>li. I liuve not seen this 
picture, but, judoiuo- from other of Saxons portraits, sucli as the 
'• Jolm Clerk of Eldin," father of Scott's friends, William Clerk 
and Lord Kldin, or tlie •• I^ady Scott," it should be well painted ; 
while the enoravino- l)y James Heatli for " The Lady of tlie Lake " 
(1810) — it was the first published portrait of tlie poet — bears out 
the contemporary estimate tluit it con\'eyed '• an impress of the 
elasticity and youthful \'ivacity wliicli Scott used to complain wore 
otf after lie was forty." JNleanwliile, howexer, Scott, now famous 
as the author of "The I>ay " and '' Marmion, " liad sat (1808) to 
l{ael)urn, at the request of Iiis publisher, Archibald Constable, for 



32 



SIR WALTER SCOTT 



the full-lenoth which is so well known 
from the brown mezzotint by Cliarles 
Tnrner (1810). Altlionoh Lockhart did 
not care nuicli for tliis as a likeness, 
and it cannot be considered one of its 
painter's snccesses. Scott thon(T]it hiohly 
of it, for, luiA'int)- (juarrelled with Con- 
stable, he asked if he mii>ht ]ia\e it. 
and. the reqnest being declined in 
" most handsome terms,"' got Rael)m'n 
to paint (ItSO!)) a replica, for whicli he 
gave several sittings. This, wliich 
hangs in the drawing- room at xVbl)ots- 
ford, is in every respect a finer pictnre 
than its predecessor, now tlie property 
of the Duke of Ruccleucli. from wliich 





^IR WALTER SCOTT, BY SIR '.VILLIA.M 

ALLAN, R.A., 1832 

In the National Portrait Gallery 



From a photo by fiio. Clapperton, Galashiels 

THE OLD TOLBOOTH DOOR AT 
ABBOTSFORD 



it differs in background and 
by tlie introduction of a white 
and yellow greyhound in ad- 
dition to •• Camp," the ])ull- 
terrier. wlio also figures in 
Saxons portrait. The Ab- 
botsford picture has never 
been engraxed. ])ut, through 
the kindness of the Hon. Mrs. 
Maxwell Scott, oNIessrs. Jack 
were able to include a photo- 
graxure of the head in their 
" Edinburgh ' edition of the 
novels. 

Between this Raebm-n and 
the Chantrey bust of 1820 the 



SIR WALTKR SCOTT 



m 




From a photo hy A. A. Iitgiis, Edinburgh 

THE LIBRARY AT ABBOTSFORl) 



most important por- 
tniit painted was that 
by Andrew Cxeddes. 
Henning produced a 
drawing and a medal- 
lion al)()nt 1800 : \\ . 
Nicholson etched in 
1817 a water-colonr he 
had made two years 
before ; in 1817 also 
A\"ilkie painted the 
"Abbotst'ord Family," 
M'liicli some time ago 
passed from the Fer- 
gnson family, by a 

member of whicli it had been connnissioned, into the National 
Gallery of Scotland ; and a year later 'I'homas Pliillips, to whom 
we are indebted for so many portraits of hterary and artistic 
celebrities, execnted tlie ])icture in wliich Sir W^alter is depicted 
in a tartan plaid, which Iiangs in JNlr. iNlnrrays rooms in xVlbemarle 
Street. Hut these are of little interest compared witli the Geddes, 
which is. perhaps, tlie most convincing, as it is the most artistic, 
pictorial record of 
Scott in existence. 
Probably a study for 
a ^'ery large picture, 
since ruined by neg- 
lect, commemorati\'e 



of the Discovery of 
the Scottish Kegalia. 
it was painted about 
1818, the year of- Tlie 
Heart of INIidlothian." 
and shows him at the 
very height of his 
powers. His eyes have 




From a thoto by A. A. Inglis, Edinburgh 

THE STUDY AT ABBOTSFORD 



34 



SIR AVALTER SCOTT 



that curiously di'cauiy. almost sleepy, look so eharaeteristie of his 
expression when lost in eontenij)lation. and the mouth holds, as no 
other painted mouth of his does, the ])r()misc of infinite humour, 
pathos, and o-ood nature. The artist also made a pencil drawing, 
which has been engraved, and both picture and drawing are to ])e 
seen in the Scottish National Portrait (Gallery. 

In a paper like th.is it is obviously impossible to deal in detail with 
every likeness produced after 1820. That year itself saw Scott 
in London to receive his baronetcy, and the conniiencement of two 
fine portraits. Chantrey, who had made Scott's accquaintance 
throuo'h his Dumfriesshire assistant, Allan Cunninoham. asked him 
to sit, and the result was the charming and characteristic bust which, 

in Lockharts opinion, 
" alone })reser\'es for 
posterity the cast of 
expression most fondly 
remembered by all 
who ever mingled in 
his domestic circle." 
Six years later, as the 
inscription on the 
marble records, it was 
presented by the 
sculptor to the poet 
as a token of esteem, 
and to-day it stands in 
the niche at the end 
of the A})botsford 
hbrarv. where Scott's 
son placed it the day 
after his father's 
funeral. In addition 
to casts in bronze for 
Robert Cadell and 

SIR WALTKR SCUl't IN HIS STUIiV, IKO.M A PAINTING BY AllaU CimUHlgham, 

bIR WILLIAM ALLAN, K.A. ,, , , ....,1 ., 

,,. , . ,. „ . the sculptor car\ ed a 

Kischsitz Collection 1 




sill VVAl/lEK SCOT'r 



:35 



du])licate for Apsley 
House, and, when he 
presented the oi-ioinal to 
Sir AValter, lie reeeived 
sittings for another, wliieli 
\\'as afterwards aecjuired 
by Sir Robert I'eel. 
Quite as interestino- in 
its way is the eharniino- 
drawing (in the Oxford 
University (xallery) done 
by diantrey at this time, 
and reprodueed by Kuskin 
in '"Fors Chni oera "' 
(xxxi.) as •• Walter of the 
Borderland." 

Though less intimate 
in mood, the Lawrenee 
portrait, whieh dates from 
this visit, is also of first- 
elass importanee. To 
Seott the request to sit 
came in most flatterino- 
forni, for Sir Thomas informed him that his was to be first ot 
a series of the King's most distinguished contemporaries that his 
Majesty desired to have for A\^indsor Castle. Scott's (^pinion, re- 
corded in his Diarv for November, 18-i(), when he wive the IVesident 
a final sitting, was one of wonder that - Sir Thomas had made so 
much out of an old weather-beaten block"; and Lockhart thought 
that, while the picture was finer when the head floated against a 
sea of dark blank can^■as, and the figure was, as it is, somewhat 
out of scale with the head, the artist had caught with admirable 
.skill one of the loftiest expressions of his sitter's countenance. 

In 1822 Sir Henry Uaeburn, at the request of I^ord INIontagu, 
had a second innings, and produced the singularly massi^•e and 
powerful head that belongs to the Earl of Home, and several other 




SIR WALTKR SCOrr, I'.V SIR | 

GORDON, R.A., iS 

Risch^itz Collection 



0H\ WATSON 



36 



SIR WALTER SCOTT 




From a /"/</,• . i :,,l.-.sis. I'liUntinc <5~ Sens, Ltd., Dundee 

SIR WALTER SCOTTS TOM 11 IN DRVKURGH ABBEY 



versions, nitlier differ- 
ent in arrangement, of 
whicli that which lie 
retained for liiniself 
(now in JNIr. Arthur 
Sanderson's collection) 
was admirably en- 
graved in a combi- 
nation of stipple and 
line by A\^ i 1 1 i a m 
\\^alker. It is to be 
regretted that the 
graceful story which 
makes this the last 
work of Raeburn's liand will not stand investigation. Joseph's bust, 
which shows an independent reading of Scott's character, l^elongs 
to the following year, and 18*24 is remarkal)le for sittings for at 
least tliree new portraits. Newton's, of which versions exist at 
Abbotsford and JNIr. Jolm Murray's, was considered the best domestic 
portrait ever done ; l)ut tlie otlier American, Leslie, was less 
fortunate, and missed tlie essential character. His commission was 
from INIr. Ticknor, of l^oston. and the portrait painted for him is 

now in the Boston 
Gallery ; but replicas 
are owned by Lord 
Rosebery and in Aus- 
tralia. AN'ilkie's, which 
now belongs to iSir 
Donald Currie, was a 
study for the big pic- 
tiu-e of George W . 
entering Holyrood — 
a Royal commission — 
in wliicli Scott figures 
^ as the '• Hard." The 

Frorn a i>hoto by Messrs. Valentine <S- Sons, Ltd., Ihindec ,^^„4-,,.,;f ... K,r IMnnlivf^ 

DRYBURGH ABBEY portraits by IMaclise 





A iMjRlKAlT OF SIR M-ALTER SCOTT, P,V SIR tDWIN LANDSEER, R.A., I'AINIKD 
IN 1834, AFTER THE AUTHORS DEATH 

Rischgit Collection 



38 



SIR W ALTER SCOTT 




(1825). Knio-lit (1826), and 
(iraham (iilhert (182i)) need 
not detain us. although tlie 
last represents the " Author 
of A\"a\'erley '' in his eapa- 
city as President of the 
Royal Soeiety (Edinburo-h), 
and the first was so poj^idar 
that the sale of reprodue- 
tions enabled the artist to 
set up a studio. 1828, like 
1824, produced three por- 
traits, of which Colvin 
Smith's was sucli a favourite 
that the artist was called 
on for a score of replicas. 
It is not a _<>reat work, how- 
ever, and Eockhart's opinion 
was unfavourable. Hay- 
don's, incidentally referred 
to in the Diary, has disappeared: and that in which '•the old 
wizard. Xorthcote. who really resembles an animated nunnmy," 
represented himself painting Sir A\ alter. I lun e only seen in a 
small version, perhaps that referred to by Allan Cunningham. 
Avhich. when shown at the Cxlasgow International Exhibition in 
11)01, was described as " Sii" David A\"ilkie j)ainting the portrait of 
Sir Walter Scott " ! 

Perhaps the last portraits, that sliow Sir A\'alter before his heroic 
struggle to die without debt had broken him down completely, were 
painted by Sir John A\^atson (Gordon from the oi'iginal study, in 
which the head alone is finished, and which the artist always retained, 
now in the Scottish I'ortrait (yallcry. Of the ])ictures founded on 
that study the one painted for Mr. Cadell (now in Eady Foulis's 
possession) is best known, although a cabinet full-length showing 
Scott at work is also po])ular. Some ten years earlier the future 
President of the R.S.A.,^then plain John Watson, had painted an 



Ftoiii u photo by John Patrick, Edijiluir^/i 

THE SCOTT MONUMENT AT EDINIUJROH, WTl'H A VIEW 
OK THE CASTLE IN THE 1!ACKc;R0UND 



Sll{ WALTKK SCOTT 



89 



excellent seated halt-length for Lady ^Vbercorn, wliich, a few years 
ago, was secnred at Cln'istie's for a long price l)y Sir A\"illiani xVgnew. 
Like many of the other portraits, it inelndes a dog. 4'iie Edinbnrgh 
(rallery also contains Sir Francis Grant's small fnll-length, painted 
at Abi)otsford while Scott was dictating " Connt llobert of Paris '" 
to \\'illie Laidlaw ; and a most interesting little drawing by Crombie 
(18.31), in which Sir A\^dter"s appearance, as lie limped abont the 
Edinbnrgh streets, is very happily cauglit. A similar note is strnck 
in an excellent small full-length that Sir A\'illiani Allan did for 
Ml'. I^lackwood some years before : and to Allan, whom Scott 
befriended, and set upon lines which give him an im])ortant place 
in the history of Scottish painting, we are also indebted for the last 
portrait from life. A cabinet-sized canvas re})rcsenting him reading 
a proclamation of Queen Mary's, it was shown in the lloyal 
Academy of 18:3-2 a few months befoi-e Scott returned from Italy 
to die within sound of his beloved Tweed. 

Hanging in the Xational Portrait (Gallery beside Allan's picture 
is a vei-v attractixe and xitid oil sketch by Landseer, painted a year 
or two after Scoffs death, but founded on close intimacy and 
sketches from hfe. And Avith mention of this and of the curiously 
fascinating Death INIask, which lies in a little room off the study in 
Abbotsford. this brief sunmiary of the principal portraits of Sir 
Walter Scott nuist close. 

Ja:mes L. Caw. 



Sir Walter Scott 

see frontispiece 



Sir Walter Scott's 
great-grand- 
father, " Beardie " 

see page 2 



B I (; R A P H I C A L NO T E 

Sii- X\'altcr rlcott was Imni (in Aiiiiust lotli, 1771, l>t'iiiii- tlic iiintli cliild of 
A\'alter Hcutt, \\'i-iter to the Siirnet, wlio married Anne Riitlierford in April, 
17.")}5. " My liirtli was ueitlier distiniftiished nor sordid," wrote tlie author in 
liis Autol)io^ra|)liy, with reference to liis own descent. '• Accordinii" to the 
prejudices of my country, it was esteemed goitic, as I was connected, thouizh 
remotely, witli ancient families both hy my father's and mother's side. My 
fother's y-randfather was \\'alter Scott, well known in 'I'e\iotd;ile hy the 
surname of ' lieardie.' He was tlie second son of A\'alter Scott, first Lainl 
of Raeburn, who was tliird son of Sir X\'illiam Scott, and the g-randson of 
A\'alter Scott, commonly called in ti-adition ' Auld Wat,' of Harden. . . . 



40 



BIOGRAPHICAI. NOTE 



Sir Walter Scott's 
father 

sec page 6 



Sir Walter Scott's 
mother 

see page 3 



College Wynd, 
Edinburgh, the 
birthplace of Sir 
Walter Scott. 

.v<v page 4 

No. 25, George 

Square, 

Edinburgh 

see page 8 

Sandyknowe 
Tower 

see page 9 



Waverley Lodge 
Kelso 

see pa- c 10 



The Grammar 
School, Kelso 

see pa»c 10 



' Beardie,' my great-jJTandtatlier aforesaid, derived liis cognomen from a 
venerable beard, wbicb lie wore iniblemislied by razor or scissors, in token 
of bis regret for tlie banisbed dynasty of Stewart. It would lia\e been well 
tliat bis zeal bad sto])])ed tbere. But be took arms, and intrigued in tbeir 
cause, until be lost all lie bad in tlie world, and, as I bave lieard, ran a 
narrow risk of being banged, bad it not been for tbe interference of Ann, 
Duchess of Buccleucb and Monmouth." 

Of "Beardie's" three sons, Robert, tbe second, (juarrelled with bis father, 
turnetl AVhig. and set up as a farmer at Sandyknowe, where be reared a 
large family, tbe autlnu- lieing descended from tbe eldest son, wdio was born 
in 17-!*. " His jterson and face were uncommonly handsome, with an 
e.xpi'essiou of swcetiu'ss ot tenipi-r which was not fallacious." ccuitinued 
Sir ^\'alter in liis Autoliiograpby. "■ My fatlu-r was a singular instance of 
a man i-ising to eminence in a ])rofession U)v ^vbich nature bad in some 
degree unfitted bim. ... In the actual business of tbe profession which 
be emliraced, in that sliarp and intuiti\e perception wbicb is necessary in 
driving bargains for himself and otbers, in availing himself of tbe wants, 
necessities, caprices and follies of some, and guarding against the knavery 
and malice of others, Uncle Toby himself could not bave conducted liimself 
with more simplicity than my father." 

Scott's mother was tbe sole surviving child, liy bis first wife, of John 
Kutherford, Professor of Medicine in the Inixersity of Edinburgh. She was 
short of stature and " by no means comely." According to her son. she 
joined to a light and lia])py temj>er of mind a strong turn to study jxietry and 
w(irks of imagination. Slie was sincerely devout, but lu'r religion wa> of a 
cast less austere than liis father's. The lunise in which Scott was born, 
and which was later demoli.'^bed, was situated at tlie head of the north .side 
of tbe College A\'ynd, Edinburgh, opposite the gateway of the I'niversity. 
'I'he building was plain of aspect and consisted of four stories, of Avbich the 
upper floors were the abode of tbe Scott family. Soon after the autlior's 
liirth. bis father removed to a new Juuise at No. i'."). (ieorge Square, and 
tliis coutiiiued to Itc Sir Walter's "nKist established jilace of residence" until 
liis marriage in 17l'7- 

In tbe summer (tf 177-^ at the cdinmencemeiit of bis tliird year, Scott was 
sent to Sandyknowe. bis grandfather's farm at Smailholni. Above tlie house 
was a small loch, and on the summit of the overhanging crags stood the 
ruined tower of Sandyknowe. which has tittingly been called "tbe out- 
standing sentinel of all the lower valley of tbe Tweed." On tlie death of 
bis grandfather, the home at Sandyknowe was broken up, and bis aunt 
removed to Kelso. "'My health bad become rather delicate from rapid 
growth." be wrote, "and my fatlu-r was easily persuaded to allo\\- me to 
spend half a year at Kelso with my kind aunt. Miss Janet Scott, whose 
inmate I became. At this time she resided in a small bouse, situated very 
pleasantly in a large garden, to the eastward of the churchyard of Kelso, 
which e.xtended down to the Tweed. It was then my father's property, from 
whom it was afterwards purchased by my uncle." 

Tbe rudiments of education were imparted to Scott at tbe Old (irammar 
School at Kelso, \\'bich be attended during liis vacation from the Edinburgh 
High School in 17H;3, and where he also acted as a kind of i>upil-teacber. 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 



41 



Lady Scott 
( Charlotte 
Margaret 
Carpenter) 

Sff pagt' 7 



Lasswade 
Cottage 



• />age 12 



Sir Walter Scott 
at Hermitage 
Castle 

sec page 1 1 



Old Sheriff Court 
House, Selkirk 

Sir page 13 

No. 39, Castle 

Street, 

Edinburgh 

sec page 13 



Ashestiel 

see page 14 



tlic master at that time lieiiiii" Mr. I^aiicelot A\ hale, '•an excellent elassical 
scliolai-. a liiimorist, and a worthy man." with a supreme antipatliy to the 
puns wliicli his uneomnidu name f'reiiueiitly ^a\e rise to. 

In Xoveinlier, 17^;}, Seott beijau to attend classes at Kdinhiiri;h ('(dleije, 
})nt a severe illness interrupted his studies and he returned aij-ain to Kelso. 
In 17H(') he was apprenticed to his father as ^^'riter to the Siimet ; Imt two 
years later commenced studyint;- for tlie l>ai-. to which he was called on 
July nth, 17!>:^. 

On December L'4th, 17!*7. N'ott mai-ried Miss Cliarlotte Maryai-et 
t'arj)enter, the dauti'liter of a Frencli I'efufj-ee. " \\'ith(iut the featinvs of 
a iH'iTular beauty. " wrote Lockhai't, desci-ibin^ Miss Carpenter, "she was ricli 
in personal attractions ; ' a f(n-m tliat was fashioned as liij^ht as a fa}''s ' ; a 
complexion of tlie ch'arest and lii^litest olive ; eyes large, deep-set. and 
dazzlinir. of the finest Italian brown ; and a profusion of silken tresses, 
black as tlie i-axt-n's Aving ; her aildress ho\erinii' between the reserve of a 
])retty young Englishwoman who has not mingled largely in general s(ti'iety. 
and a cei'tain natural archness and gaiety that suited \xv\\ with tlu' accom- 
paniment of a Fi'ench accent." 

The marriage took place at (ai-lislc. and the newly-weilded pair li\ed 
first at Xo. 108, George Street, Edinliurgli, wlience the\' remo\ed to .'•outh 
Castle Street. The summers, howtncr. during the early years of man-ied life 
were spent at Lasswade Cottage, situated on tlu- Ksk, aliout six miles from 
Kdinburgh. It was a small lunise, with but one I'oom of large dimensions 
and a good-sized garden, commanding a beautiful \iew . in which Scott himself 
took great delight in training the plants and creepers. 

Hef(n-e settling at Lasswade it had been Sir ^Valter's custom to nnke a 
"yearly raid" into Liddesdale eacli autumn at tlie rising of the Coin-ts. 
chiefly witli a \iew to exploring the grim and inaccessible region in the 
neiglilioui'hood of — 

Hermitage in Liddesdale, 
Its dimgeons and its towers. 

This awesome fortress is much associated with Scott. Here it Avas that the 
l)(uiglas ring he wore was found, and here, too, he M^as repi'esented by 
Raeburn, in the first portrait painted by that artist in 1808, at full length, 
sitting by a ruineil wall, with Camp at his feet and the mountains of Liddes 
ilah' in the backgrcunul. 

In 17i'!) Scott was appointed Sjieriff-depute of Selkirkshire, having the 
su])port of the Duke of Buccleuch in applying for the office. His duties 
were light and the salary was £'oOO per aninmi, while the title of "Shirra" 
invested him with great importance in the eyes of the neighbourhood. 
Scott was now living at Xo. oi). Castle Street, Ediid)urgh ; and. the business 
of tlie Court being o\er, would depart for his "city home," which Coleridge 
described as " divinely situated," for it looked up the street "full u]>on the 
rock and castle." The room in which Sir ^\'aIter worked was behind tlie 
dining-rocmi, and here he finished " W'averley " and "(iuy .Mannering." 
l)esides writing " Peveril of the Peak," " (^uentin Durward," and "St. 
Ronan's ^\'ell." 

Scott gave up Lasswade Cottage in 180-1, and removed to Ashestiel, where 
he wrote "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," " Marmion," and "The Lady of 



42 



BIOGRAPHIC AI. NOTE 



Loch Katrine 

sct' page 1 8 



Abbotsford and 
the Eildon Hills 



Melrose Abbey 

sw /,/..-.' 18 



the Lake." Ashestiel was orig'iually an old Bonier touer, part of nliicli 
was euelosed in the residence. The west wintf was added l)y Mrs. Russell, 
Scott's aiuit, niakiuii' it an odd-hHikini:'. three-cornered l)iiihlini:\ The 
house A\as protecti'il (in the north hy tiie Tweeil. an<I on thi' I'ast hy a 
deep ra\int' clotlied w itli trees, throuifh whicli i-uns tlie litth- hrook referred 
to in tlie opening;- lines of ■" Alarmion " : — 

Low in its dark and narrow glen, 

\'ou scarce the ri\ulet might ken, 

So thick the tangled greenwood grew, 

So feeble trill'd the streamlet through ; 

Now, murmuring hoarse, and frequent seen 

Through bush and brier, no longer green. 

An angry brook it sweeps the glade. 

Duriiiii' l}{(H)-7 Scott was workinj? upon " Dryden," and was at this 
time appointed Secretary to the Parliamentary Commission upon Scottisli 
Jurisprudence. "Marmion " was jtuhlislied on Fel)ruary 2."^rd, 180B. to he 
followed in liSlO hy "Tlie Lady of the Lake," which eijualled tlie success 
of its jii'edecessors, I'esulting- in a rusli of visitors to Locli Katrine. 

The sunuiier dawn's reflected hue 

To purple changed Loch Katrine blue ; 

Mildly and soft the western breeze 

Just kissed the lake, just stirred the trees, 

And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, 

Trembled, but dimpled not for joy ; 

The mountain shadows on her breast 

Were neither l)roken nor at re^t ; 

In bright uncertainty they lie, 

Like futiiie joys to Fancy's eye. 

His lease of Ashestiel runninii- out, Scott i-esolved to huy a jilace of his 
own. lie fixed finally upon an estate H\e miles farther down tlu' Tweed, 
consistioi;- of a meadow, one lunulred acres <if rcuigli land, and a small 
farmhouse, for which he paid £'4, 0(H), and to which he fj:a\ e the name of 
Ahhotsford. An additional attraction, in his eyes, t(» this neijihhourhood 
was the proximity of Melrose Althey, to which the lands had ]»reviously 
helonged, and of which the author ii-i\es a charmiui;- ])icture in •"The Lay 
of the Last Minstrel" : — 

If thou wouldst view fair Melmse aright 
Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; 
For the gay beams of lightsome day 
Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 
When the broken arches are black in night, 
And each shafted oriel glimmeis white; 
When the cold light's uncertain shower 
Streams on the ruined central tower ; 



Rhymer's Glen 

see page 20 



Then go — but go alone the while — 
Then \iew .St. David's ruined pile; 
And, home returning, soothly swear, 
Was never scene so sad and fair. 

Ahhotsford may he called the centre of Sir M'alter Scott's Country. 
()ri;>inally it was a small farm named Cartleyhole. But the farm was 
yrailually converted into an estate hy the acquisition of adjoining- lands, for 
which the author ]»aid hirge sums. He concluded the ]»urchase of Totttield 
for £10,000, altering its name to lluntly Burn, fnnn the iiKUintain hi-(Md< 
which ran through the grounds. This hum found its way from tlieCauld- 



BIOGRAPHICAL XOTK 



48 



Finding- the MS. 
of '■ Waverley " 



John Gibson 
Lockhart 



A portrait of 
Mrs J. G. 
Lockhart 

sec page 27 



Chiefswood 
Cottage 

see page 26 



Ahbotsford from 
the south-west. 

see pao^ 30 



sliicls Locli tin-oiiiili the Kliymci-'s (Jli'ii. wliicli liad boon previously ac(|iiir(Ml. 
.Scott was thus made master (as lie helieved) of all the haunts of Thomas 
tlie Hliymei-. and tlie scene ofliis interview witli the Queen of the Fairies. 

( )n .(uly 1st, 1!'.I4, Scott's edition of I'wift. in nineteen volumes, was 
puhlisliod. to lie f(dlowed a fortiuij-ht later liy the apjtearance of " Waverley." 
■|"liis no\cl liad heen commen<'ed shortly after tlie author had settled at 
Ashestiel. Hut aftei- writini^- ahout one-third of the first volume, he cast 
the Avork aside, mainly on the advice of his friend >\'illiam Erskine 
(afterwards L(n-d Kinnedder). \u\y many years the manuscript remained 
untouched, and it was not until the sunnner of IBKl that the missini,'- sju'ets 
were discovered liy sjieer accident in tin- lumher-ronm at Aliliotsfn-d : and 
the remainini:' \(dumes \\ere tiu'n comjtleted for pulilicaticni in an incredihly 
siiin-t space of time. 

''ir A\'alt<'r first made the acquaintance of .f(dni (ril)son Lockhart, his 
future son-in-law and hioij-rapher, in May, 1818. Lockhart was a man 
endowed with personal charm of a hi^h m-der, haviniJ- inherited the tine 
Italian features and dark eyes of his mother, a woman of extraordinary 
])eauty. The turning point in his career had heen the puhlication of an 
article on '■ Heraldry," written at an early aye, thronj^h which he was 
hroutrht to tlie notice of lilackwood. He married Scott's eldest daug-hter, 
Sophia, on April L'!)th, 1820. Mrs. Lockhart died in May, 18:37, and the 
followinii:, taken hmn Stanzas on lier Funeral hy the Rev. Henry Hart 
Milman. u-ives some slight insitrlit into the heauty of lier character: 

Meet emblem uf that lightsome spirit thou ! 

That still, wherever it might come, 

Shed sunshine o'er that happy home, 

Her task of kindliness and gladness now 

Absolved with the element above 

Hath mingled and iiecomc pure light, pure joy, pure love. 

In the early years of their married life Mr. and Mrs. Lockhart lived at 
Chiefswood Cottajje, in the \ icinity of Melrose. This residence, originally 
called Burnfoot, had heen purchased hy Scott for the purpose of finally 
roundinii' of!" the Ahhotsford estates. Sir ^\'altel• was a c(uistant visitoi' at 
('hiefs\\dod at such times as he found it piissihh' to escape from tin- 
"nauseous stir" at Abhutsford, and he peinied a larye portion of '"'I'he 
Pirate" at the cottage, where Lockhart's own novels were also written. It 
was here that the latter received the offer tendered him by Disraeli of 
a post on the Ui^iiirKciitiitirc, a Londiui daily, which, however, he declined, 
accepting instead the editorship (rf the ilndrfcrhi I'cricir. 

( )f Ahhotsford, as it stood com])leted in 18:^4. a \ery full description is 
given in Lockhart's " Life " : 

'"On all sides, except towards tlu' i-iver. the hiuise c(unu'cts itself with 
the gardens. It is eniinenth' imposing in its general effect ; and in most of 
its details, not only full of historical interest, hut of heauty also. It is no 
doubt a tiling of shreds and patches, but they have been combined by a 
masterly hand. . . . The hinise is more than one hundred and fifty feet long 
in front, was built at tw(t different onsets ; has a tall tower at either end, the 
one n<it least like the other ; presents sundry crowfooted, (ilhts zigzagged, 
gables to the eye ; a myriad of indentatiinis and parapets, and machicolated 
eaves ; most fantastic waters[iouts ; lalielled windows, not a few of them 



44 



HIOGRArHICAL XOTK 



The Entrance 
Hall at 
Abbotsford 

see page 30 



The Library at 
Abbotsford 



m7<7VV33 



The Study at 
Abbotsford 

sec page 2,3, 



The Old Tolbooth 
Door at Abbots- 
ford 

see page 32 



Sir Walter Scott's 
Tomb in 
Dryburgh Abbey 

see page 3h 



Dryburgh Abbey 

see fiage 3b 

The Scott Monu- 
ment at 
Edinburgh 

se;r page 38 



painted iilass ; jj-roiijis of riii-ht Klizabctliau chiiniu-ys ; bak-uiiies of tlivers 
fashions, fj^reater and less ; and a very nol)le projecting gateway. 

" Tlie liall is almnt forty feet long l>y twenty in height and breadtli. The 
^^al]s ai'e of i-iclil\' carxcd oak, most part of it exceedingly dark, and lirought, 
it seems, from the old Alihey of Dunfermline ; the roof, a series of pointed 
arches of the same, each beam j)resenting in the centre a sliield of arms 
richly Idazoned. . . . 'I'lie floor of this hall is black and white marble, from 
the Hebrides, wroiiglit lozenge-wise ; and the u]>per walls ai'e com]»letely 
hung with arms and armour. 

" The librai-y is an oblong of some fifty feet by thirty, witli a ])roji'ction 
in the centre. op])osite the fireplace, terminating in a grand bow-wintlow, 
fitted u]i with books. The roof is of cai-\'ed oak again — a \ei'y rich ])attern 
chii'fly ('( /■■/ Koslin. The collection amounts in this room to some fifteen or 
twenty tlKuisand volumes. The only picture is Sir A^'alter's eldest son, in 
hussar unifoi'm, and Indding his horse — by Allan, of Kdinburgh — a noble 
porti'ait. o\ er the fire])lace. 

"Tliis room (the sfnirfiini of tlie autlior). wliicli seems to be a crib of 
about twenty feet, contains, of wliat is ])roperly called furniture, nothing but 
a small writing-talile in tlie centre, a plain arin-chair covered with black 
leather, and a single chair itesides ; plain symptoms that this is no jdace for 
company. On either sitle of the fireplace there are shelves filled witli Imoks 
of reference, chiefly, of course, folios; Imt, except tliese, there are no liooks 
save the contents of a light gallery which runs round three sides of the room, 
and is reached by a hanging stair of carved oak in one corner. There are 
only two 2>'>i"traits — an (U-iginal of the beautiful and melancdioly head of 
Claverhouse (Bonny Dundee), and a small full-length of llol) Roy." 

The Old Tolbooth door was taken from the ■' liastille of Edinbui'gh," and 
inserte<l in the wall abutting on the entrance ]jort'h at Abliotsford. AMiilst 
Scott was liusy \vitli liis plans of building, he wrote to Mr. Terry with regard 
to it : 

" I expect to get some decorations from tlie idd roll)not]i of Kdinburiili, 
particularly the copestones of the doorway, or lintels, as we call them, and a 
)iich(' (u- two — one very handsome indeed ! Better get a niche. /)'o/// the T(dbooth 
than ill it, to wliich such building operations are a]»t to bring tlie projectors." 

Sir \\'alter Scott died at Aldiotsford on September I'lst, 1»;W, and on the 
evening of ^\'ednesday, the 2(5th, his remains were laid beside those of his 
wife in the sepulchre of bis ancestors at Dryburgh Abbey. This Abbey dates 
from tlie middle of the twelfth centur}'. It would ]ia\e descended to Sir 
W alter liy inheritance liad not one of his ancestors Iteen obliged to part with 
it owing to falling into bankru])tc\'. "" The ancient jiatrimoiiy." wrote 
Scott, " was sold for a trifle, and my father, who might have pundiased it 
with ease, was dissuade<l by my grandfather from doing si>, and thus we have 
nothing left of Dryburgh hut the right r»f stretching our bones tliere." 

The fomulation-sttuie of the monument raised to Sir W^alter Scott at 
Edinburgh was laid on August 1.5th, 1840. The monument was comjileted 
at a cost of £lo,{j5{), and its inauguration was celebrated (Ui the same day 
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